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Single-player games like Stone Age

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Stone Age, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Arc of Icarus — Steam game cover

    Arc of Icarus

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — Steam game cover

    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Floodland — Steam game cover

    Floodland

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

    2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — Steam game cover

    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Odd Realm — Steam game cover

    Odd Realm

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    After the Collapse — Steam game cover

    After the Collapse

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Goblins of Elderstone — Steam game cover

    Goblins of Elderstone

    Single-player alternative to Stone Age — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stone Age.

    This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →